activeMedia is a SaaS (Software as a Service) vendor producing a complete suite of on-demand and integrated management solutions, including an ERP, CRM, CMS, SFA, POS, DMS, PMS, Dashboards and a complete mobile solution.
History
Origins
activeMedia was founded in 2001 by Francois Dubuc. The company remains private without initial funding and start building solutions for different vertical markets in 2002, after completing a one year technology development process in 2001.
Current status
activeMedia is headquartered in Quebec, Canada with no other offices from now. The company's suite of SaaS solutions now fully covers the complete requirements of 21 different verticals, including, but not limited to, manufacturing, distribution, golf courses, retail, property management, food and beverage, fence company and others. The service is actually provided to 185,000 subscribers.
Products and Services
activeSaaS
Launched in 2002, activeSaaS is a complete and integrated SaaS (Software as a Service) suite used to drive the full business processes of a company, starting from the complete marketing processes, the customer account, the supplier account, the inventory management, the complete manufacturing processes, the warehouses management, the complete delivery and distribution processes, the fully customizable dashboards to the online presence management (Content Management System). The complete suite actually contains more than 550 modules customers can pick from to customize their solution to perfectly fit their needs. Since 2007, an evaluation version of the service is available for free to anybody.
activeMobile
Launched in 2003, activeMobile is an extended mobile solution used for Sales Force Automation, Customer Relationship Management, Warehouses management and others. activeMobile is a mobile extension to activeSaaS providing the tools to mobile sellers, deliverer, drivers, technicians, marketing manager and others. The mobile solution can actually be deployed on PocketPC, TabletPC and/or Laptops.
activeID
Launched in 2007, activeID is an SSO (Single Sign-on) service for SaaS applications. The service is actually used in more than 100 domains, SaaS aaplications, web sites, Intranet sites, Extranet sites, Portals and eCommerce sites.
Awards
The company won, over the years some awards and joined some well known groups:
* 2002 : Best entrepreneur (3rd place)
* 2003 : International Institute of Telecommunications
* 2004 : Best Business Solutions (finalist)
History
Origins
activeMedia was founded in 2001 by Francois Dubuc. The company remains private without initial funding and start building solutions for different vertical markets in 2002, after completing a one year technology development process in 2001.
Current status
activeMedia is headquartered in Quebec, Canada with no other offices from now. The company's suite of SaaS solutions now fully covers the complete requirements of 21 different verticals, including, but not limited to, manufacturing, distribution, golf courses, retail, property management, food and beverage, fence company and others. The service is actually provided to 185,000 subscribers.
Products and Services
activeSaaS
Launched in 2002, activeSaaS is a complete and integrated SaaS (Software as a Service) suite used to drive the full business processes of a company, starting from the complete marketing processes, the customer account, the supplier account, the inventory management, the complete manufacturing processes, the warehouses management, the complete delivery and distribution processes, the fully customizable dashboards to the online presence management (Content Management System). The complete suite actually contains more than 550 modules customers can pick from to customize their solution to perfectly fit their needs. Since 2007, an evaluation version of the service is available for free to anybody.
activeMobile
Launched in 2003, activeMobile is an extended mobile solution used for Sales Force Automation, Customer Relationship Management, Warehouses management and others. activeMobile is a mobile extension to activeSaaS providing the tools to mobile sellers, deliverer, drivers, technicians, marketing manager and others. The mobile solution can actually be deployed on PocketPC, TabletPC and/or Laptops.
activeID
Launched in 2007, activeID is an SSO (Single Sign-on) service for SaaS applications. The service is actually used in more than 100 domains, SaaS aaplications, web sites, Intranet sites, Extranet sites, Portals and eCommerce sites.
Awards
The company won, over the years some awards and joined some well known groups:
* 2002 : Best entrepreneur (3rd place)
* 2003 : International Institute of Telecommunications
* 2004 : Best Business Solutions (finalist)
Tactical realism is a genre of gaming in first-person shooters where realistic settings are simulated by the game engine to the best of its ability and players use authentic military tactics to accomplish goals in the game. Tactical realism requires enforcement through a combination of in-game rules, game server settings and, often, game modification. While most first person shooters require some level of modification to provide tactical realism gameplay, some, like America's Army, ArmA: Armed Assault, and World War II Online are more suited to tactical realism gameplay without modification. A general guideline for tactical realism is if a soldier would not, or would not be able to do it in real life, it should not be done in-game.
Tactical realism can also describe the manner in which some gaming clans organize themselves. These clans adopt the rank, name and insignia of an actual combat unit past or present.
Restrictions
Games, modifications, and game servers enforce and encourage tactical realism gameplay through rules the players on a server much follow, as well as restrictions within the game itself. Typical rules and restrictions on a tactical realism game server may restrict the following:
Movement
*Bunny hopping - Some games have completely removed jumping.
*Run and gun (RNG) - (a similar term is spray and pray) When one runs towards the enemy while using the spray and pray technique, with no regard for one's (virtual) life.
**Suicide runs - Synonymous with RNG, except this also includes crashing a vehicle into an enemy, which usually results in the destruction of both the vehicle and the enemy.
*Snaking/Worming - When one adopts the prone position in an open area with no cover and immediately fires at an enemy. Also when one repeatedly switches between two different stances (ie. prone and standing) without lapse of time.
*Map exploits - When one travels to places on the map where a soldier in real life would not be able to reach.
**Ledging - When a player stands on a windowsill or a shelf that is less than 6 inches in width.
Weapons
* - Also known as spray and pray. This should not be confused with suppressive fire, which is long controlled bursts of fire.
* - Limits the amount of grenades a single player can throw within a certain period of time.
**Jumping before throwing a grenade - Unrealistically extends the distance thrown.
*Number of weapons carried - A typical soldier carries one primary weapon and one sidearm.
Head-Up Display
*Crosshairs - The player is expected to use the iron sights or telescopic sights on their weapon.
*Ammunition counters - The player must check the magazine itself to be sure of the number of rounds left.
*Weapon status indicators - Such as the temperature of the barrel.
*Health indicators - Health is not based on 100 hit point systems.
*A compass or map which is displayed permanently on the HUD - The player must press a button to display the compass or map.
*In-game maps that show the locations of friendly or enemy players
*Killcams - A term coined from Call of Duty, when one is able to see the location of one's opponent after being killed. This term has been extended to cover any vision of the battlefield after dying.
Games
These are some examples of full retail games that are well-known within the tactical realism community and are more suited to tactical realism gameplay without modification. The list is in alphabetical order:
*America's Army
*ArmA: Armed Assault
*Brothers in Arms series
*Hidden & Dangerous series
*Operation Flashpoint: Cold War Crisis
*Red Orchestra: Ostfront 41-45
*
*
*World War II Online
History
Tactical realism can also describe the manner in which some gaming clans organize themselves. These clans adopt the rank, name and insignia of an actual combat unit past or present.
Restrictions
Games, modifications, and game servers enforce and encourage tactical realism gameplay through rules the players on a server much follow, as well as restrictions within the game itself. Typical rules and restrictions on a tactical realism game server may restrict the following:
Movement
*Bunny hopping - Some games have completely removed jumping.
*Run and gun (RNG) - (a similar term is spray and pray) When one runs towards the enemy while using the spray and pray technique, with no regard for one's (virtual) life.
**Suicide runs - Synonymous with RNG, except this also includes crashing a vehicle into an enemy, which usually results in the destruction of both the vehicle and the enemy.
*Snaking/Worming - When one adopts the prone position in an open area with no cover and immediately fires at an enemy. Also when one repeatedly switches between two different stances (ie. prone and standing) without lapse of time.
*Map exploits - When one travels to places on the map where a soldier in real life would not be able to reach.
**Ledging - When a player stands on a windowsill or a shelf that is less than 6 inches in width.
Weapons
* - Also known as spray and pray. This should not be confused with suppressive fire, which is long controlled bursts of fire.
* - Limits the amount of grenades a single player can throw within a certain period of time.
**Jumping before throwing a grenade - Unrealistically extends the distance thrown.
*Number of weapons carried - A typical soldier carries one primary weapon and one sidearm.
Head-Up Display
*Crosshairs - The player is expected to use the iron sights or telescopic sights on their weapon.
*Ammunition counters - The player must check the magazine itself to be sure of the number of rounds left.
*Weapon status indicators - Such as the temperature of the barrel.
*Health indicators - Health is not based on 100 hit point systems.
*A compass or map which is displayed permanently on the HUD - The player must press a button to display the compass or map.
*In-game maps that show the locations of friendly or enemy players
*Killcams - A term coined from Call of Duty, when one is able to see the location of one's opponent after being killed. This term has been extended to cover any vision of the battlefield after dying.
Games
These are some examples of full retail games that are well-known within the tactical realism community and are more suited to tactical realism gameplay without modification. The list is in alphabetical order:
*America's Army
*ArmA: Armed Assault
*Brothers in Arms series
*Hidden & Dangerous series
*Operation Flashpoint: Cold War Crisis
*Red Orchestra: Ostfront 41-45
*
*
*World War II Online
History
This is a list of multimedia software which is not required to be "installed" onto a computer's permanent storage device to be executed, and can be stored on a removable storage medium such as a USB flash drive and used on multiple computers. Ideally it can be configured to read its configuration from the same location as the software. This should not be confused with software portability, which is the ability for software to be run or compiled with little modification on diverse computing platforms. Most multimedia software on this list can be run on multiple computers of the same hardware and operating system platform only.
File Converters / Transcoders
* 3GP Converter ()
* Audiograbber ()
* AVS Video Converter ()
* BonkEnc ()
* CDex ()
* lamedropXPd ()
* MediaCoder ()
* mp4UI ()
* oggdropXPd ()
* r8brain ()
* Riva FLV Encoder ()
* Stoik Video Converter ()
* SUPER(Build 16 and below) ()
* TMPGEnc ()
* winLAME ()
CD/DVD Burning
* BurnCDCC ()
* Burrrn - create audio CDs (supports many formats) ()
* CDBurnerXP Pro ()
* DeepBurner Portable Edition ([http://www.deepburner.com/?rproducts&prdeepburner&prr=portableed site])
* SilentNight Micro CD Burner ()
* Small CD-Writer ( in russian)
Codecs
*GSpot ()
Editors
* Audacity:
** Audacity Portable () for Microsoft Windows
** Portable Audacity () (Site and app in French but you can change the application to run in English once you have loaded it)
** Portable Audacity ()
** Portable Audacity () for Mac OS X
** X-Audacity ()
* mp3DirectCut ()
* Media Tagger ()
* MP3 Tag Tools ()
* Subtitle Workshop: ([http://www.urusoft.net/products.php?catsw&lang1 site])
* Taginator ()
Media Players
* 1by1 ()
* Billy ()
* CD ()
* CoolPlayer ()
* foobar2000 ()
* Fusion Media Player ()
* GSPlayer () - only Pocket PC
* [http://www.xs4all.nl/~hneel/software.htm HACP]
* Media Player Classic ()
* MicroWAV ()
* MilkyTracker ()
* MPlayer ()
* MPUI ()
* Multi Media Center ()
* mv2 player ()
* SilentNight MP3/CD Player ()
* System Tray Play ()
* The Core Pocket Media Player ()
* TPlayer ()
* VideoLAN: ()
** Portable VLC Media Player ()
** Portable VLC () for Mac OS X
** XVideoLAN ()
* XMPlay ()
* Winamp ()
Recorders
* ASFRecorder () - download ASF, WMV, WMA, and more from websites
* Streamripper ()
* RadioRipper ()
* StationRipper ()
* StepVoice Recorder ()
Slide Show Applications
* Slide Show Movie Maker ()
Video Authoring
* AsfBin ()
* JPGVideo ()
* Movica ()
Video Capture
* AMCap ()
* WinDV ()
* STOIK Capturer ()
* VirtualDub: ()
Miscellaneous
*YamiPod ()
Portable Multimedia Software
File Converters / Transcoders
* 3GP Converter ()
* Audiograbber ()
* AVS Video Converter ()
* BonkEnc ()
* CDex ()
* lamedropXPd ()
* MediaCoder ()
* mp4UI ()
* oggdropXPd ()
* r8brain ()
* Riva FLV Encoder ()
* Stoik Video Converter ()
* SUPER(Build 16 and below) ()
* TMPGEnc ()
* winLAME ()
CD/DVD Burning
* BurnCDCC ()
* Burrrn - create audio CDs (supports many formats) ()
* CDBurnerXP Pro ()
* DeepBurner Portable Edition ([http://www.deepburner.com/?rproducts&prdeepburner&prr=portableed site])
* SilentNight Micro CD Burner ()
* Small CD-Writer ( in russian)
Codecs
*GSpot ()
Editors
* Audacity:
** Audacity Portable () for Microsoft Windows
** Portable Audacity () (Site and app in French but you can change the application to run in English once you have loaded it)
** Portable Audacity ()
** Portable Audacity () for Mac OS X
** X-Audacity ()
* mp3DirectCut ()
* Media Tagger ()
* MP3 Tag Tools ()
* Subtitle Workshop: ([http://www.urusoft.net/products.php?catsw&lang1 site])
* Taginator ()
Media Players
* 1by1 ()
* Billy ()
* CD ()
* CoolPlayer ()
* foobar2000 ()
* Fusion Media Player ()
* GSPlayer () - only Pocket PC
* [http://www.xs4all.nl/~hneel/software.htm HACP]
* Media Player Classic ()
* MicroWAV ()
* MilkyTracker ()
* MPlayer ()
* MPUI ()
* Multi Media Center ()
* mv2 player ()
* SilentNight MP3/CD Player ()
* System Tray Play ()
* The Core Pocket Media Player ()
* TPlayer ()
* VideoLAN: ()
** Portable VLC Media Player ()
** Portable VLC () for Mac OS X
** XVideoLAN ()
* XMPlay ()
* Winamp ()
Recorders
* ASFRecorder () - download ASF, WMV, WMA, and more from websites
* Streamripper ()
* RadioRipper ()
* StationRipper ()
* StepVoice Recorder ()
Slide Show Applications
* Slide Show Movie Maker ()
Video Authoring
* AsfBin ()
* JPGVideo ()
* Movica ()
Video Capture
* AMCap ()
* WinDV ()
* STOIK Capturer ()
* VirtualDub: ()
Miscellaneous
*YamiPod ()
Portable Multimedia Software
Constantine M. Los (in Greek, Κωνσταντίνος Μ. Λως) was born on the Greek island of Chios, in 1871. He was the youngest son of the shipping magnate Matheos S. Los. He was trained in maritime skills in Chios. In 1904 he went to New York and became the chief engineer of a line of ferryboats operating in New York harbour, and in 1906 he went to Panama to assist in the maritime aspects of the building of the Panama Canal.
Around 1910 he returned to Chios. Utilizing the personal capital he amassed in the Americas, he assumed control of the fleet his father left to his older sons after his death in 1881.
Between 1914 and 1930 he revamped the Los fleet, replacing several ships with the then modern steam ships. He continued to expand the fleet until the outbreak of World War II.
In 1922, as the Turkish army invaded Asia Minor westward towards Smyrna, Costis Los offered and personally captained his only locally available ship to the Greek efforts to assist the 1,500,000 resulting Greek refugees by transporting them to safety in mainland Greece.
During World War II, Costis Los' entire fleet was requisitioned by the Allied Forces, and in turn suffered losses. By the end of the war, his sons had established offices in London, Montreal and New York, although he continued to oversee operations from Chios.
The New York-based sons had played a role in the decision of the American government to liquidate its wartime fleet of Liberty Ships to private interests that had lost ships on behalf of the Allied Forces during the war, including the allocation of 107 of these ships to Greek shipowners, with lucrative sale terms.
With the profits of the Liberty Ships allocated to Costis Los, the fleet began to grow once again, and by the 1950's he was commissioning new shipbuildings in Japan.
Costis Los is also credited with numerous charitable works in Chios, including the construction of a water-pumping station and the development of a beach, now called Los Beach.
Costis Los died in 1962 in Chios, having already passed the operation of his fleet to his sons.
Around 1910 he returned to Chios. Utilizing the personal capital he amassed in the Americas, he assumed control of the fleet his father left to his older sons after his death in 1881.
Between 1914 and 1930 he revamped the Los fleet, replacing several ships with the then modern steam ships. He continued to expand the fleet until the outbreak of World War II.
In 1922, as the Turkish army invaded Asia Minor westward towards Smyrna, Costis Los offered and personally captained his only locally available ship to the Greek efforts to assist the 1,500,000 resulting Greek refugees by transporting them to safety in mainland Greece.
During World War II, Costis Los' entire fleet was requisitioned by the Allied Forces, and in turn suffered losses. By the end of the war, his sons had established offices in London, Montreal and New York, although he continued to oversee operations from Chios.
The New York-based sons had played a role in the decision of the American government to liquidate its wartime fleet of Liberty Ships to private interests that had lost ships on behalf of the Allied Forces during the war, including the allocation of 107 of these ships to Greek shipowners, with lucrative sale terms.
With the profits of the Liberty Ships allocated to Costis Los, the fleet began to grow once again, and by the 1950's he was commissioning new shipbuildings in Japan.
Costis Los is also credited with numerous charitable works in Chios, including the construction of a water-pumping station and the development of a beach, now called Los Beach.
Costis Los died in 1962 in Chios, having already passed the operation of his fleet to his sons.